Publications – AP Lab

2024

Teimouri, R., Kersten-Oertel, M., & Xiao, Y. (2024, October). CT-based brain ventricle segmentation via diffusion Schrödinger Bridge without target domain ground truths. In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (pp. 135-144). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. *Nomination for the best paper award, top 1.6% of submissions
Harirpoush, A., Rasoulian, A., Kersten-Oertel, M., & Xiao, Y. (2024). Architecture Analysis and Benchmarking of 3D U-shaped Deep Learning Models for Thoracic Anatomical Segmentation. IEEE Access.
St John, A., Khalid, M. U., Masino, C., Noroozi, M., Alseidi, A., Hashimoto, D. A., … Kersten-Oertel, M. & Madani, A. (2024). LapBot-Safe Chole: validation of an artificial intelligence-powered mobile game app to teach safe cholecystectomy. Surgical Endoscopy, 1-11.
Noroozi, M., St John, A., Masino, C., Laplante, S., Hunter, J., Brudno, M., … & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2024). Education in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Design and Feasibility Study of the LapBot Safe Chole Mobile Game. JMIR Formative Research, 8, e52878.
Asadi, Z., Asadi, M., Kazemipour, N., Léger, É., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2024). A decade of progress: bringing mixed reality image-guided surgery systems in the operating room. Computer Assisted Surgery, 29(1), 2355897. *Best paper award
Kazemipour, N., Hooshiar, A., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2024). A usability analysis of augmented reality and haptics for surgical planning. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 1-10.
Alizadeh, M., Xiao, Y., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2024). Virtual and augmented reality in ventriculostomy: A systematic review. World Neurosurgery.
Titov, A., Kersten-Oertel, M., & Drouin, S. (2024). Contextual Ambient Occlusion: A volumetric rendering technique that supports real-time clipping. Computers & Graphics, 119, 103884.
Aktar, M., Xiao, Y., Tehrani, A. K., Tampieri, D., Rivaz, H., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2024). SCANED: Siamese collateral assessment network for evaluation of collaterals from ischemic damage. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 113, 102346.

2023

Noroozi M, St. John A, Masino C, Laplante S, Hunter J, Brudno M, Madani A, Kersten-Oertel M. LapBot Safe Chole: Design and feasibility study of an educational mobile game for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. JMIR Preprints. 18/09/2023:52878
Jalayer, Sepehr; Xiao, Yiming; Kersten-Oertel, Marta (2023). VRNConnect: A virtual reality immersive environment for exploring brain connectivity data. Jalayer, S., Xiao, Y., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2024, March). VRNConnect: Towards more intuitive interaction of 3D brain connectivity data in virtual environments. In 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 24-29). IEEE.
N. Najafi, M. Addie, S. Meterissian, and M. Kersten-Oertel, “Breamy: An augmented reality mHealth prototype for surgical decision-making in breast cancer,”
AE-CAI and Special Edition of Healthcare Technology Letters, 2023.
Voisard, L., Hatira, A., Sarac, M., Kersten-Oertel, M., Batmaz A. U., Effects of Opaque, Transparent and Invisible Hand Visualization Styles on Motor Dexterity in a Virtual Reality Based Purdue Pegboard Test. Accepted to 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR).
Titov*, A., Kersten-Oertel, M., Drouin, S. (2023) “Contextual Ambient Occlusion“, Graphics Interface Conference.
Jalayer*, S., Xiao, Y., Kersten-Oertel, M. (2023) “VRNConnect: an interactive virtual reality platform for connectomic data exploration,” The 2023 Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Annual Meeting.
Aktar, M.*, Reyes, J.*, Tampieri, D., Rivaz, H., Xiao, Y., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2023). Deep learning for collateral evaluation in ischemic stroke with imbalanced data. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 1-8.
Hellum O, Kersten-Oertel M, Xiao Y. Assessment of user-interaction strategies for neurosurgical data navigation and annotation in virtual reality. Virtual Reality. 2023 Jun;27(2):1345-55.

2022

Hellum, O., Kersten-Oertel, M., Xiao, Y. (2022) Assessment of user-interaction strategies for neurosurgical data navigation and annotation in virtual reality Virtual Reality, 1-11 [Preprint]
Reyes, J.*., El-Mufti, N.*, Gorman, S.*, Xie, D.*, & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2022) User-centered design for surgical innovations: A ventriculostomy case study. Accepted to Ethical & Philosophical Issues in Medical Imaging (MICCAI). [PDF (preprint)].
Ansari, N.*, Léger, É.*, & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2022) VentroAR: An Augmented reality platform for ventriculostomy using the Microsoft HoloLens. Accepted to Augmented Environments in Computer Assisted Interventions Special Issue of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization (2022). [PDF (preprint)].
Hellum, O., Mu, Y., Kersten-Oertel, M., & Xiao, Y. (2022). A novel prototype for virtual-reality-based deep brain stimulation trajectory planning using voodoo doll annotation and eye-tracking. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 10(4), 418-424.
Etaat, A.*, Haghbin N.*, Kersten-Oertel, M. (2022)An Online Balance Training Application using Pose Estimation and Augmented Reality. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, P. 168 – 176. [PDF (preprint)].
Amini, S.*, & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2022). A A prototype 3D modelling and visualisation pipeline for improved decision-making in breast reconstruction surgery. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 10(3), 313-320. (*Best paper award at AE-CAI)

2021

Titov, A.*, Kersten-Oertel, M., & Drouin, S. (2021). The Effect of Interactive Cues on the Perception of Angiographic Volumes in Virtual Reality. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 1-9.
Léger, É.*, Gueziri, H., Collins, L., Popa, T., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2021). Evaluation of low-cost hardware alternatives for 3D freehand ultrasound reconstruction in image-guided neurosurgery. Simplifying Medical Ultrasound. ASMUS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12967. Springer, Cham.
Reyes, J.*., Xiao,Y., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2021). Data imputation and reconstruction of distributed Parkinson’s disease clinical assessments: A comparative evaluation of two aggregation algorithms. Clinical Image-Based Procedures, Distributed and Collaborative Learning, Artificial Intelligence for Combating COVID-19 and Secure and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning. Springer, Cham, 2021. 163-173. [PDF (preprint)]
Reyes, J.*., Di Jorio, L., Low-Kam, C., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2021). Precision-Weighted Federated Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.09627.
Parisay, M.*, Poullis, C., Kersten-Oertel, M. (2021). EyeTAP: Introducing a Multimodal Gaze-based Technique using Voice Inputs with a Comparative Analysis of Selection Techniques. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.[PDF (preprint)].
Parisay, M.*, Poullis, C. and Kersten-Oertel, M., 2021. IDEA: Index of Difficulty for Eye Tracking Applications-An Analysis Model for Target Selection Tasks. In VISIGRAPP (2: HUCAPP)(pp. 135-144). [PDF (preprint)]
Haghbin, N.* and Kersten-Oertel, M. (2021). Multimodal Cueing in Gamified Physiotherapy: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health – ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-506-7; ISSN 2184-4984, pages 137-145.[PDF (preprint)].
Gerard, I. J., Kersten-Oertel, M., Hall, J. A., Sirhan, D., & Collins, D. L. (2021). Brain Shift in Neuronavigation of Brain Tumors: An Updated Review of Intra-Operative Ultrasound Applications. Frontiers in Oncology, 10, 3390. [PDF (preprint)]

2020

Meshgin D.*, Kersten-Oertel, M. (2020). Multiple sclerosis image-guided subcutaneous injections using augmented reality guided imagery. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 1-6. [PDF (preprint)]
Aktar M.*, Xiao Y., Tampieri D., Rivaz, H., Kersten-Oertel, M. A Radiomics-based Machine Learning Approach to Assess Collateral Circulation in Ischemic Stroke on Non-contrast Computed Tomography. Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support and Clinical Images-Based Procedures (CLIP2020). [PDF (preprint)]
Haghbin N.*, Kersten-Oertel, M. On the Impact of Context-Aware Notifications on Exercising. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ’20), October 5–8, 2020, Oldenburg, Germany.
Aktar M.*, Tampieri D., Rivaz, H., Kersten-Oertel, M., Xiao Y. Automatic Collateral Circulation Scoring in Ischemic Stroke using 4D CT Angiography with Low-Rank and Sparse Matrix Decomposition. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-020-02216-w
Léger É.*, Vassallo, R. Popa, T., Peters T., Xiao, Y., Kersten-Oertel, M. A prototype for video-based hemodynamic analysis in neurosurgery implemented on a mobile augmented reality system. CARS 2020 — Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Proceedings of the 34th International Congress and Exhibition, Munich, Germany, June 23–27, (2020): 15(1) Supplement, S91-S92.
Léger É.*, Reyes J., Drouin S., Popa T., Hall, J.A., Collins L., Kersten-Oertel M. MARIN: an open-source mobile augmented reality interactive neuronavigation system. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (2020): 15(6), 1013–1021. PDF (preprint)
Parisay, M.*, Poullis C., Kersten-Oertel, M. 2020. FELiX: Fixation-based Eye Fatigue Load Index: A Multi-factor Measure for Gaze-based Interactions. Accepted to the 13th International Conference on Human System Interaction HSI 2020 (*Best Paper Finalist).
Parisay, M.* Poullis C., Kersten-Oertel, M., “EyeTAP: A Novel Technique using Voice Inputs to Address the Midas Touch Problem for Gaze-based Interactions”, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08455

2019

Amini, S.* Kersten-Oertel M., 2019. An Augmented Reality Mastectomy Surgical Planning Prototype using the HoloLens. Healthcare Technology Letters: Special Issue: Papers from the 13th Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 261-265, 12. (*Best Paper Award)
Plazak, J.*, DiGiovanni, D.A., Collins, D.L. & Kersten-Oertel, M., 2019. Cognitive load associations when utilizing auditory display within image-guided neurosurgery. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, pp.1-8.
Poullis, C., Kersten-Oertel, M., Benjamin, J. P., Philbin-Briscoe, O., Simon, B., Perissiou, D., … & Skarlatos, D. (2019). Evaluation of “The Seafarers”: A Serious Game on Seaborne Trade in the Mediterranean Sea during the Classical period. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 12, e00090.

2018

Drouin, S., DiGiovanni, D. A., Kersten-Oertel, M. A., & Collins, L. (2018). Interaction-driven enhancement of depth perception in angiographic volumes. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
Drouin, S., Collins, D. L., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2018). Interaction in Augmented Reality Image-Guided Surgery. In Mixed and Augmented Reality in Medicine (pp. 99-114). CRC Press.
Xiao, Y., Drouin, S., Gerard, I. J., Fonov, V., Aubert-Broche, B., Ma, Y., Kersten-Oertel, M., Tampieri D., & Collins, D. L. (2018). An augmented-reality system prototype for guiding transcranial Doppler ultrasound examination. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 77(21), 27789-27805.
Léger É*, Reyes J, Drouin S, Collins L, Popa T, Kersten-Oertel M. Gesture-based registration correction using a mobile augmented reality image-guided neurosurgery system. Healthcare Technology Letters: Special Issue: Papers from the 12th Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions. 2018 Aug 22.
Plazak J*, Kersten-Oertel M. A Survey on the Affordances of “Hearables”. Inventions. 2018 Jul 14;3(3):48.
Xiao Y, Drouin S, Gerard IJ, Fonov V, Aubert-Broche B, Ma Y, Kersten-Oertel M, Tampieri D, Collins DL. An augmented-reality system prototype for guiding transcranial Doppler ultrasound examination. Multimedia Tools & Applications (2018). Epub ahead of print: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-5990-9
Gerard IJ, Kersten-Oertel M, Drouin S, Hall JA, Petrecca K, De Nigris D, Di Giovani D, Arbel T, Collins DL. Combining intraoperative ultrasound brain shift correction and augmented reality visualizations: a pilot study of eight cases. Journal of Medical Imaging, 5(2), 021210 (2018). doi:10.1117/1.JMI.5.2.021210.

2017

Plazak J*, Drouin S, Collins DL, Kersten-Oertel M. Distance sonification in image-guided neurosurgery. Healthcare Technology Letters: Special Issue: Papers from the 11th Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions, (2017) 4(5):199-207.
Léger É*, Drouin S, Collins DL, Popa T, Kersten-Oertel M. Quantifying attention shifts in augmented reality image-guided neurosurgery. Healthcare Technology Letters: Special Issue: Papers from the 11th Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions (2017), 4(5): 188-192.
Xiao Y, Alamer A, Fonov V, Lo BWY, Tampieri D, Collins DL, Rivaz H, Kersten-Oertel M. Towards automatic collateral circulation score evaluation in ischemic stroke using image decompositions and support vector machines. In: Cardoso M. et al. (eds) Molecular Imaging, Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, and Stroke Imaging and Treatment. CMMI 2017, SWITCH 2017, RAMBO 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10555. Springer, Cham.
Gerard IJ, Kersten-Oertel M, Petrecca K, Sirhan D, Hall JA, Collins DL. Brain shift in neuronavigation of brain tumors: A review. Medical image analysis, 2017 Jan 31;35:403-20.

2016

Gerard IJ, Couturier C, Kersten-Oertel M, Drouin S, De Nigris D., Hall JA, Mok K, Petrecca K, Arbel, T, Collins DL, Towards a Second Brain Images of Tumours For Evaluation (BITE2) Database, in Proceedings of the Brain Lesions (BrainLes) Workshop, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 10154. Springer International Publishing.
Drouin S, Kochanowska A, Kersten-Oertel M, Gerard IJ, Zelmann R, De Nigris D, Bériault S, Arbel T, Sirhan D, Sadikot AF, Hall JA. IBIS: an OR ready open-source platform for image-guided neurosurgery. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 2016 Aug 31:1-6.
Kersten-Oertel M, Gerard IJ, Drouin S, Petrecca K, Hall JA, Collins DL. Towards Augmented Reality Guided Craniotomy Planning in Tumour Resections. In International Conference on Medical Imaging and Virtual Reality. 2016 Aug 24 (pp. 163-174). Springer International Publishing.

2015

Kersten-Oertel M, Gerard I, Drouin S, Mok K, Sirhan D, Sinclair DS, Collins DL. Augmented reality in neurovascular surgery: feasibility and first uses in the operating room. International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery. 2015 Nov 1;10(11):1823-36.
Kersten-Oertel M, Gerard IJ, Drouin S, Mok K, Sirhan D, Sinclair DS, Collins DL. Augmented Reality for Specific Neurovascular Surgical Tasks. In Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) 2015 Oct 9 (pp. 92-103). Springer International Publishing.
Drouin S, Kersten-Oertel M, Collins DL. Interaction-based registration correction for improved augmented reality overlay in neurosurgery. In Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) 2015 Oct 9 (pp. 21-29). Springer International Publishing.
Gerard IJ, Kersten-Oertel M, Drouin S, Hall JA, Petrecca K, De Nigris D, Arbel T, Collins DL. Improving Patient Specific Neurosurgical Models with Intraoperative Ultrasound and Augmented Reality Visualizations in a Neuronavigation Environment. In Workshop on Clinical Image-Based Procedures (MICCAI) 2015 Oct 5 (pp. 28-35). Springer International Publishing. *Best paper award

2014

Kersten-Oertel M, Chen SJ, Collins DL. An evaluation of depth enhancing perceptual cues for vascular volume visualization in neurosurgery. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2014 Mar;20(3):391-403.
Kersten-Oertel M, Gerard I, Drouin S, Mok K, Sirhan D, Sinclair D, Collins DL. Augmented reality in neurovascular surgery: first experiences. In Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions 2014 Sep 14 (pp. 80-89). Springer International Publishing.

For publications prior to 2014 visit the Google Scholar webpage of Marta Kersten-Oertel.